Sanitary device for telephones.



I. P. MILLS, SANITARY DEVICE FOR TELEPHONES APPLICATION FILED JUNEZQ, 1911.

1,045,310. Patented Nqvf26, 1912 WITNESSES i N NT B ATTORN I IGNATIOUS PERCY MILLS, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

- SANITARY DEVICE FOR TELEPHONES.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IGNATIOUS Planer MILLS, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of fian Francisco and State of California, have invented a new and useful Sanitary Device for Telephones, of which the following is a specification in such full and clear terms as will enable those skilled in the art to construct and use the same. A

This invention relates to an antiseptic device to be applied to the mouthpiece ofa telephone, and its object is to provide a small ring of antiseptic material to destroy germs which may be thrown oil from the users of the telephone.

A'nrobject of the invention is to provide a device which may be applied to any telephone by merely bending down a' series of cars secured thereto.

In the drawings in which the same numeral of reference is applied to the same portion throughout the several views,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a telephone standard and the mouthpiece showing the device applied thereto,

' Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the device as applied to the telephone mouthpiece, Fig. 3 is a vertical. sectional view of the device showing the mouthpiece in dotted lines, Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the device with the ears'thereon sprung outwardly preliminary to placing the same in position upon the telephone mouthpiece, Fig. 5 is a view of the holding cap showing the ears for securing thedisinfectant and securing ring in place in the cap, and Fig. (3 is a plan view of the securing ring.

The numeral 1 represents the telephone standard on which is the usual sending apparatus 2 and mouthpiece 3. The sanitary Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 29, 1911. Serial No. 635,959.

nesses.

' device comprises a flanged cap 4 having two sets of earsfi and 6 thereon, there being four of each series. The ears 5 are for the purpose of securing an annular plate 7 in place within the cap against a ring of disinfectant material 8, the plate 7 securing said ring in position in the cap. The ears 6 are for the purpose of securing the sanitary device to the mouthpiece of the telephone and when in place on the mouthpiece, they are bent. down as shown in Fig. 1. The ears 5 are bent down across the ring 7 and hold it and the disinfectant material in place within the ca 4.

The. operation of the device will be obvious. It is placed against the mouthpiece of a telephone, and the ears 5 are bent down so that they hold it in osition, the open ing through the cap and ring 7 being sufficiently large to allow the use of the telephone in the ordinary manner andnot interfere with the sameat all.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure Letters Patent of the United States is as. follows In a sanitary device for telephones, a

flanged annulus, a ring of disinfecting material secured thereto, a ring 'to hold said disinfecting material in place, .ears on the Patented Nov. 26, 1912. I

flanged annulus to hold said ring against the disinfecting material, and other ears to secure the annulus in place onthe mouthpiece of a telephone, as set forth? In testimony whereof I have hereunto set I my hand this 23d day of June A. D. 1911,

in the presence of the two subscribed wit- IGNATIOUS PERCY MILLS. Witnesses C. P.. GRIFFIN,

H. B. CLARK. 

